THE JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY IS NOT ENOUGH 🏛🌹✊🏾 REPARATIONS GARDEN AT THE ELLIPSE PARK ON THE WHITE HOUSE PT. 4
This year, BLK FLWR MRKT honored Juneteenth in a way we, or the country, have never done before. With an all Black team - all Washingtonians, some women, some men, some of which were returning citizens - and with the tenacious support of @humanrightswatch + @stinkstudios - the Reparations Garden was created.
We installed the Reparations Garden in eyes distance from The White House so that @potus Joe Biden can see. He committed to a study of US chattel slavery of Africans, and its ongoing vestiges, in order to formalize a start of reparations for Black Americans, byway of the HR40 Bill.
We asked him to make an Executive Order by Juneteenth on the Bill, and despite the garnished support needing to pass it, it was tabled. So, the fight continues.
This project has been the highlight of my career! I’ll be sharing some BTS deets and more info on the HR40 Bill all week. Because Flower Buds, you won’t even believe all that has transpired at the Reparations Garden this past week - both incredible moments and unbelievable ones!
Round of applause and a huge hug to the Researchers at Human Rights Watch, particularly Dreisen Heath, a woman that is DOING THE WORKKKK to hold the federal government accountable to their laws and policies that enabled Black enslavement and generational poverty.
Tag @potus and ask WHEN WILL THE WHITE HOUSE SUPPORT A STUDY OF REPARATIONS? Because the Flower Buds want to know, okay?!!!!???!!!
#reparationsnow #reparationsgarden #hr40